“Do the conservatives have McCarthy’s promises in writing?!?
What difference would that make? They could be written in blood and still not pass.”
Silly rabbits, the “terrorist” /s Republicans that held up McCarthy’s nomination can do/will do the same thing again if what they negotiated for isn’t in the rules package.
The House will again be at a standstill until it is fixed.
Grant that Democrats get an advantage from making the Rs look like idiots. Further grant that a D voting for McCarthy could look bad.
If the new rules are good for conservatives, why wouldn’t some Ds vote for McCarthy?
Silly rabbits, the “terrorist” /s Republicans that held up McCarthy’s nomination can do/will do the same thing again if what they negotiated for isn’t in the rules package.
The House will again be at a standstill until it is fixed.
What I was getting at was that McCarthy may well put the agreements in the rules package but a majority of the House needs to vote for it to pass, and it was approved 220 to 213 on a party-line vote with one Republican opposed. This surprised me. It would only have taken a change of four more votes to fail.